Guest Case: Lascivious Lawyer - Part I

Welcome everyone to "Case Of The Lascivious Lawyer". This story was written by one of my most loyal readers - ChimpGal (she goes by another name when posting comments, but I'm not saying anything!). The names / dates / places have been changed in this story. I'm sure you're all used to that by now. I hope that as you read through ChimpGal's story, you'll think about submitting your own. You don't have to use a style similar to mine (like ChimpGal did). Just write your story down and send it to me (chiefmonkey AT gmail.com). Go on, you know you want to!
Without any further delay, here's Part I:
Case Of The Lascivious Lawyer - Part I[Written by ChimpGal - Edited by SecurityMonkey] I knocked carefully at the door of the Chief Legal Officer. I didn't like the rareified air up here on the 16th floor very much. "You called me?" I asked. "Thanks for coming, ChimpGal. Come in, and close the door." After a few pleasantries, we got down to business. "ChimpGal, I want you to conduct an investigation of the head of Internal Audit and Clark Jones. We have reason to believe that there is an ongoing inappropriate relationship between them, and in some cases, company funds have been used to pay for rendezvous trips, dinners out, and so on." My little chimp brows disappeared into my hairline and my stomach lurched. Clark Jones was the legal representative for my department. The head of Internal Audit, Amy McAllen, was my co-equal. Both of us reported to the Board of Directors. One word from Amy to the board and I could find myself with no job and no way to support my growing Starbucks habit. Besides, I'd known Clark for years! Heck, I'd known Clark since he came to the company straight out of law school. I knew his wife and kids. I looked at the CLO as if he had sprouted a second head. "You can't be serious. Clark?? Okay, I'll investigate but I'll tell you right now that I don't think I'll find anything. And, by the way... I need the request in writing." I backed slowly out of the office, still hoping to wake up from this bad dream. Back in the monkey house, I went through the formalities of opening a case. I assigned it a formal case number, fetched a neon orange file folder, put the case number on the tab, and stapled a "Case Folder Contents" checklist to the inside front cover. The printed request for investigation, signed by the CLO, was checked off and placed in the folder. Awww, monkey poo!! What was I going to do with this folder? I couldn't put it into the department's safe -- Amy had a key and the combination to the safe as an Internal Audit safeguard. And what was I going to do with this case? I couldn't very well assign one of the chimplets to investigate. Guess I'd have to do this one myself. Well, I'd just have to ponder this one over a venti Americana....
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